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Angels and Airwaves is an alternative rock band created by former blink-182 and Box Car Racer guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge along with Hazen Street and Box Car Racer guitarist David Kennedy, ex-Distillers bassist Ryan Sinn and current Offspring drummer Atom Willard. The band released their first single, "The Adventure," on May 18, 2006 and their debut album, We Don't Need to Whisper, on May 23, 2006.

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Angels & Airwaves is an American supergroup, currently featuring Tom DeLonge (guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist), Ilan Rubin (drummer, keyboardist and backing vocalist), David Kennedy (guitarist, keyboardist) and Eddie Breckenridge (bassist). Former members are bassist Ryan Sinn (The Distillers), drummer Adam "Atom" Willard (The Offspring, Rocket from the Crypt and Against Me!), bassist Matt Wachter (Thirty Seconds to Mars), guitarist, keyboardist David Kennedy and bassist Eddie Breckenridge.

Formed after Blink-182 went on hiatus in 2005, the band has continued to record and tour despite DeLonge reigniting his career with Blink-182 in 2009. The band has released five studio albums We Don't Need to Whisper (2006), I-Empire (2007), Love (2010), Love: Part Two (2011) and The Dream Walker (2014). The project also resulted in the documentary film Start the Machine (2008). In 2011, accompanying the two Love albums, the group scored and produced the science fiction drama film Love by director William Eubank in 460 theatres nationwide during their multimedia event, Love Live. The band released an animated short named Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker and their fifth album, The Dream Walker, on December 9. Other related media, such as comic books and a live-action film, are to follow in 2015.

Of the first two albums, the band says that they were mainly influenced by the music of Radiohead and Pink Floyd, combining them with the grandiosity of U2. Of the first album, Delonge said that it would be "the best music in generations", but afterwards admitted that during this time he was addicted to painkillers. Love project shows further blending of the band's musical aspirations of epic and grandiosity and the cultural revolution in the digital era.